Is it time for the United States to segregate Muslim passengers and force them to fly on Muslim-only flights? That is just one of the politically-incorrect suggestions of Khadir Taahar, an Arab-Muslim and a regular columnist for Iraq’s Kitabat newspaper, who authored this article for Britain’s Arabic Elaph news portal.
For Elaph, Taahar writes in part:
Yesterday, Allah made sure that the crime against passengers of an American aircraft arriving from Holland, in which a terrorist wanted to kill people just because he differs with them ideologically and religiously – didn’t happen. This crime and others will give America good reason to find several new ways of protecting itself and its people from the barbarity of terrorism. Security and the preservation of life will trump human rights and civil liberties.
If I were in the place of an American decision maker, I would address the threat of airborne terrorism and passenger safety by arranging special flights for Muslims only and setting up a weekly schedule of aircraft that belong to Muslim countries, which would be permitted to land in special areas of American airports. … This is part of a legitimate right to self-defense against terrorist attacks when we don’t know when or where they will originate; and when attacks could come from Muslims born in Europe and America and who have lived the high life on their bounty, only to later stab them in the back and betray them!
By Khadir Taahar, an Iraqi columnist*
Translated By Nicolas Dagher
December 27, 2009
United Kingdom – Elaph – Original Article (Arabic)
Yesterday, Allah made sure that the crime against passengers of an American aircraft arriving from Holland, in which a terrorist wanted to kill people just because he differs with them ideologically and religiously – didn’t happen. This crime and others will give America good reason to find several new ways of protecting itself and its people from the barbarity of terrorism. Security and the preservation of life will trump human rights and civil liberties.
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